boring manufacturers names
 

I ask you. Honda, Suzuki,Yamaha etc. even triumph, Norton etc.

Boring names

Now DOT .. Devoid of Trouble
CCM....Clews Competition Machines


Us Lancashire types. (When Lancashire was a real county) knew how to give a bike a proper name

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you really are bored aren't you Tim :smt045

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British small arms

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i hardly think this is the place for a thalidomide joke...

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Tch tch!

BIRMINGHAM Small Arms - and often linked (in my experience) to having deep pockets.

(And therefore should, perhaps, have beeen Lancashire Small Arms?)

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Whenever I see the word "boring" I smile as I remember the Yellow Pages entry.........

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Boring

See civil engineers
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:D

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Well my last post of last night, was obviously shook out of the database bY the earth quake.

I had referenced Brummy Small Arms.

But I also questioned bikes that people were proud to put their name on

Brough Superior, Vincent black shadow. they seem so evocative compared to Suzuki/Yamaha model number. Even H*nda despite having a hairnet in the range can make something sound right with fireblade

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I always thought that Hyabusa was good, as it means falcon or somethingor other that eats blackbirds.

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I was to do with its top speed being that of a diving hayabusa. But I like the thinking anyway ;)

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Youse are both right.

Never thought the japs had much of a sense of humour, until Suzuki let that one out at the launch. Classic.:p